Work boxes special education

Task boxes in a special education classroom can be a daunting and expensive task to set up. Save yourself time and money when setting up simple and engaging task boxes for your students from the dollar tree for less than $25! Your students will gain independence and functional life skills while working in the classroom!

From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

Setting up IEP work bins was one of the biggest game changers in my special education classroom. These individualized learning stations hold materials to target specific IEP goals for your students and can be tailored to their specific needs. If you want to set up IEP work bins in your special education classroom, you’ve come to the right place. Here you will learn the benefits of IEP work bins and 5 ways you can set them up in your classroom, including my favorite, color coded IEP work…

Little Miss Kimberly Ann: "Put in" task boxes. Love these, so simple!

Do you use task boxes in your special education classroom? If you don’t, check out this blog post for 8 ways to use task boxes for special education. You can use task boxes for one on one instruction, classroom centers or stations, with early finishers, with morning work and much more. There are so many benefits to including this special education activity into your lesson plans. Use these task boxes during independent work stations or homework today!

You need vocational activities in your classroom. You also want them to be meaningful and actually teach new skills. But do your students somehow end up sorting the same 2 or 3 items over and over? Yikes. Here are a few quick ideas for more and easy ways

TEACCH is a very systematic system used to set up a classroom for student’s with Autism. There is so much research supporting the use of TEACCH in the classroom. I have adapted the TEACCH system into my classroom and altered it to fit my student’s needs. I have an intricate system of Task...

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Variety of TEACCH work task boxes to help promote student independent work. Great for students with autism and special needs.

I could never say enough positive things about using a work box system in the classroom-- for any child. I've used them with typically developing peers in the classroom as well and it's an amazing way to in-bed practice and skill maintenance, all while working on attending to a task as well. Over the summer I did a whole post on how I structure this system in my classroom. You can check it out {here}. But one thing I've never done is actually post photos of the activities I have in my boxes…

Using work tasks with your special education students increases engagement and independence as they practice important life skills.

Find engaging classroom job skills ideas with these easy to set up job prep activities for special education and students with disabilities.

Math Centers for special education. This work task practices patterns and sequencing, color identification, following directions and/or the order of a task, fine motor skills, hand dominance, grip, hand-eye coordination, and more. Learn more at Mrs. D's Corner.

Hello! I make and share FREE task box activities and file folder games. Click the link to be directed to my free task box printables. These are great for task boxes for special education, task boxes for preschool / kindergarten / primary grades. These are great toddler activities, math activities, file folder activities and file folder games for preschool. Follow me for special education resources, preschool resources, kindergarten resources, and special education resources.

DIY Task Boxes for students in Autism Units or Vocational Training classes.

How to Increase Independence Using Task Boxes in the Classroom. Special education students take immense pride in showing off their finished work, keeping all the materials together, and putting the tasks and boxes away into their rightful places.

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Are you ready to kick off work tasks in your special education classroom? There's no better way to get started than with 8 FREE file folder tasks. These are great tasks for use in any Autism classroom. Check them out!